"The art of painting is a struggle with the paint that it should do what I want it to do, to persuade it, to play with it elements, to study them and their visceral, tactile, qualities. After I have refined and heated the oil, ground the pigment, I am sometimes astounded how the possibilities and probabilities of the Divine somehow enter visibly into the dust and oil of my paint; how earth and oil become light. White, yellow, red, black, lead, zinc, iron oxide, powdered earth, walnut, amber, marble dust combine in a multitude of ways until they ignite my heart and the heart of the viewer as one."

Louis's living craft begins with the making of paint, continues with the harmonious blending of colors, and culminates in an infusion of intuition and inspiration. The composition is a dialogue between thoughts and hesitations, unknowables and traditions, decisions and doubts, contemplations and sudden insights. In a precious balance of tensions, the paint seems to capture the inexpressible before it vanishes, holding the very moment as a point of contact between the painter and the viewer.